Cruciverbalist: Matt Ginsberg
Editor: Will Shortz
Solving time: DNF (Another way too tricky puzzle, which I hate))
Puzzle uniqueness:
UEY clue to another four answers in which the complete answer turns back on itself in the next across row. I won't try to show an example.
Words I hadn't known until now: 0
Trivia I didn't know:
ALAIN - "Formula One racer Prost"
HOTTEST - "Topping the Scoville scale" (Had no idea what the Scoville scale was)
BASALT - "Makeup of many moon rock" (One of those "How about that!" moments)
OKEEFE - "Michael of 'The Great Santini'"
LAHORE - "Punjab's capital"
Junk answers:
EEGS - "Head lines, briefly?"
INST - "Research org."
IDEO - "Prefix with -logical"
MPS - "British V.I.P.s"
Clever clues:
SOFTG - "George I or V?"
WENT - "Came's partner"
SYNAPSE - "Something involved in a firing"
Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words:
TEMPI - "Beats"
VEEPSTAKES - "Quadrennial U.S. occurrence" (WTF?"
MISCALL - "Poker blunder" (Yeah, right.)
BASSI - "Operatic villains, often"
ENIAC - "Vacuum tube innovation of 1946"
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